June 4, 2012

Hello world! 

This week has been good. I am now officially one transfer old!  transfer calls came on Saturday! Elder Bossart will be coming here to Heide and finishing my training period here. Two elders in our district are heading home, so this morning we dropped off Elder Lersch and Elder Liechty at the Bahnhof (train station) and Elder Liechty's companion will be staying with me here in Heide until Elder Bossart comes on Tuesday. Super weird to drop them off and know that they will be normal members of the church after this. Both of them were super good examples of strong, obedient missionaries.
It is so great how many appointments we make out. At least one new appointment every day. super radical. We can almost always just pick a street that hasn't been visited for a while and go by and find someone wanting to hear about the gospel. so excellent. I feel a little afraid that I will be saying a lot of the same things... but it kinda is...  We work hard every day. We find and we teach, we baptize and keep.
I would now like toclarify that I went 120 KILOMETERS/hour, and not MILES per hour. Grandma kinda chewed me out for that. 120 km/h is around 75mph, which is the mission rule. Meine Gute :) haha.
Refridgerator update: We called the Hausmeister and we ended up calling a repair man to come. The appointment is for tomorrow (Tuesday) around 10-12. And then we will see exactly what the situation is. It is definitely a bummer not being able to keep things cold. It makes cooking a lot more difficult... spaghetti like every day. haha. But luckily we have members that feed us a couple times per week :)

The weather here is all over the place. This week has been pretty chilly... but not too bad. We don't have too much that we can do here on P-days... we just hang out and write letters. I have no idea what other missionaries around here do. Yes, we meet crazy people here, but I am pretty sure that crazy people are everywhere around the world, and just because we talk with so many people, we find them more often. A lot of people drink, but it only gets crazy on feiertags (holidays). There are people running around in the streets yelling things I don't understand (probably a good thing) and dressed in weird clothes. It is always so difficult to find people to meet with on these days because they are all busy with parties and barbeques and things.

Tell Jason contratulations for me! that's awesome news. Maybe I will send them a card through you.

Hmm... now for a silly story. We have an investigator, Elizabeth, and she loves missionaries, and wants her brother in Kenya to meet with missionaries. A couple of weeks ago we ended up giving her our mission president's phone number and a bunch of other things so she can make sure the referral goes through. Yesterday, we got a text from president saying to call him... and our first thoughts are that naturally we did something wrong or there's some problem that we need to fix... turns out, Elizabeth called to tell the president of our mission that she can't meet with us on Monday... hahaha! our mission has 200 missionaries in it, so he's a busy guy and we felt silly. the end :)

Tschüss!
Elder Thorkelson